We’ll be taking a lot of kit with us – everything we need to surive and perform, against whatever the ocean and Mother Nature in her infinite wrath can throw at us. Here’s a quick breakdown of everything we’ll need to get ourselves across the ocean:

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

Daily treatment medical kit
Daylight signaling mirror
EPIRB
Fire blanket
Fire extinguisher x2
Flare pack – 22 flares total
Grab bag
Hand axe x2
Knife x2
Life jacket (with harness) x2
Life raft
Manual water maker
Medical kit
PLB x2
Race tracking device
Safety line x2
Sea sickness tablets
Throwing line 20m

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

AIS Radar transponder
AIS Radar VHF antenna
Backup solar charger x2
Battery monitor
Camera – stills
Camera – video
Charge regulator x2
Charger for batteries
Clock/alarm/countdown timer x2
Emergency backup VHF antenna
External navigation light
Fan x2
Fixed solar panel x3
Gel battery x2
GPS chartplotter
GPS external antenna
Handheld backup GPS
Instrumentation system
Internal LED lights x3
iPod entertainment system x2
Main watermaker
Portable gaming system
Satellite telephone system
Switch panel
Tool kit
VHF handheld radio
VHF main radio
VHF radio antenna
Waterproof laptop

DRIVETRAIN

Drive belts
Cleated shoes x3
Clip pedals
Crank bearing
Crankarms
Drive sprockets
Propeller bearing
Propeller x2
Step-up sheave bearing

FITTED EQUIPMENT

Bow strop
Bow strop retrieval line
Fixed manual bilge pump x2
Grab line pad eyes
Grab lines
Interior stowage screw hatches x4
Jackstays x2
Main compass
Main hatches x4
Rope guides
Rope rings and clips x4
Stern bridle
Stern strop
Stern strop retrieval line
Towing eye
Ventilators x2

STOWED EQUIPMENT

10 litre daily water container x3
Bilge pump handheld
Buckets x 3
Charts x3
Cooking cups x4
Cooking system x2
Cooking utensils x2
Drogue x2
Emergency water reserve
Fog horn
Handheld torch x2
Headtorch x2
Hot water flasks x5
Inflatable fender pack
Matches
Multitool
Off-shift water bottle x2
On-shift water bottle x6
Paddle
Sea anchor
Sea anchor rode line
Sea anchor tripping line
Solar shower
Sunglasses x2
Sunhat x2
Towing line
Travel towels
Washing line
Waterproof storage case

SPARES

Bilge pump spares kit x2
Cycle spares
Drivetrain spares
Duct tape x2
Epoxy repair kit
Lifejacket CO2 x4
Self amalgamating tape
Spare batteries
Watermaker spares

CONSUMABLES

Baby wipes
Beef jerky
Beer x2
Boil-in-the-bag wet meals x120
Chocolate
Christmas cake
Coffee
Cooking gas x8
Disinfectant
Freeze-dried food x600
Ginger cake
Isotonic powder
Peanuts
Recovery composition
Soap
Sun-block
Tea
Toothpaste
Vaseline
Washing up liquid